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If you made the lasagna yourself you can calculate the total calories of each thing you added to the recipe and then divide by portion size. You don't need to guess anything if you made it yourself.

Sure I could, but I'm not. There are 15-20 ingredients in a from-scratch lasagna, so it'd be tough to do what you're describing.

I always ask my wife how many calories are in her dinners she makes and I just get laughed at.

ETA: I'm not knocking counting calories. I'm an advocate of it. I just recognize that it's not exactly easy, especially if you're trying to be very accurate. If you're ok with occasionally guesstimating, it gets a lot easier to manage.

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Posted by Tiger Ryno

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Posted on 2/7/22 at 11:50 am to FieldEngineer

Looks like you just got slapped by the Hand of Justice.

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Posted by Hand of Justice

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Posted on 2/8/22 at 9:15 am to FieldEngineer

I hear ya and maybe it’s just semantics, but saying it’s “difficult” to track at home might lead some new people to throw away the idea. The application is easy, but it takes more time than not doing it.

However, doing it will reward the people who are coming to the health and fitness board looking for solutions to losing weight. Calories are all that matters when it comes to losing weight. A caloric deficit….so track your calories if you are looking to lose weight.

Get a food scale off Amazon and get a tracker app like myfitnesspal. You can store any meal you make and save it. So you have to calculate each thing only once. Anything out of a package you just scan.

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